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0 pointsfiddlerwoaroof8y ago0 comments

Machine code is just source code for a cpu.

Anyways, how is a transpiler different from a bytecode compiler, except that the bytecode is human readable?

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tlrobinson8y ago· 2 in thread

> how is a transpiler different from a bytecode compiler, except that the bytecode is human readable?

The bytecode is human readable.

monocasa8y ago

The assembly that comes out of GCC is human readable too (the actual assembling occurs via a different program from a different project than GCC). Is GCC a transpiler?

tlrobinson8y ago

No, because assembly is not approximately the same level of abstraction as C.

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